Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalist imprisoned for making “damaging allegations”
(JED/IFEX) – Journalist Jose Wakadila, of the Kinshasa-based daily “La Référence Plus”, was arrested by judicial police on 31 January 2005 as he was boarding a Kinshasa-bound bus and taken to the Matadi Central Prison in Bas-Congo province, western Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the prison’s director, there has been a warrant for the […]
JED welcomes suspension of hate media
(JED/IFEX) – On 13 January 2005, the Congolese media regulatory body (Haute Autorité des Médias, HAM) announced the one-month suspension of the controversial programme “Forum des médias”. The weekly programme is produced and broadcast by the public broadcaster’s (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC) Channel Two station. In its explanation for the suspension, the HAM remarked that […]
Journalist sentenced to four years in prison for defamation
(JED/IFEX) – On 5 January 2005, Déo Mulima Kampuku, a journalist with the Kinshasa-based daily “La Référence Plus”, was sentenced in absentia to four years in prison with no parole and ordered to pay 63,260 FC (approx. US$145) in damages and legal fees for defaming Guillaume Bolenga, president of the Cobil Oil (formerly Mobil Oil) […]
Four journalists detained in Kinshasa for trying to cover student demonstration
(JED/IFEX) – On 6 January 2005 in Kinshasa/Limete, Congolese National Police detained four journalists who were covering a demonstration organised by the Kinshasa Student Coordinating Committee (Coordination Estudiantine de Kinshasa). The detentions took place just before noon (local time). The four journalists were taken to the Provincial Inspectorate of the Kinshasa city police (Inspection provinciale […]
JED condemns government attempts to confine press to a “Congolese gulag”
(JED/IFEX) – The following is an excerpt from a 28 December 2004 JED press release: JED condemns government attempts to confine press to a “Congolese gulag” From 20 to 24 December 2004, a group of 11 journalists from various Kinshasa-based, privately-owned newspapers carried out a mission to Goma, capital of North-Kivu province, to report on […]
Two journalists arrested in Kamako
(JED/IFEX) – Delphin Manesa and Jean Kambamba, journalists with Radio Arc-en-ciel, broadcasting out of Kamako, were arrested on 28 December 2004 by a group of police officers acting under the orders of Mutombo Tshisala, the municipality’s deputy chief of police. Kamako is located approximately 180 kilometres from Tshikapa, the second largest city in West Kasaï […]
Director of independent newspaper released on bail
(JED/IFEX) – Feu D’or Bosange Ifonge, director of the Kinshasa-based “Tapis Rouge” newspaper, was granted a provisional release on 24 December 2004, after posting bail of US$340. Bosange was arrested on 18 December by judicial police inspectors from the Kinshasa-Gombe Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Director of “Tapis Rouge” newspaper jailed in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – On 18 December 2004, Feu D’or Bonsange Ifonge, director-general of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “Tapis Rouge”, was arrested by police inspectors from the Kinshasa/Gombe Public Prosecutor’s Office. Bonsange was first held at the Public Prosecutor’s Office’s detention centre before being transferred, the following day, to Kinshasa’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de […]